Through his affiliation with these sons and daughters of the True God (the Nameless Unknowable One, whom The Lost Book of Enki callsThe Creator of All), Marduk gained global power over all the Nephilim gods, whom he then banished to remote places under the earth, where they still remain, having been barred from returning to their home planet! Then, with the dawn of the Age of the Ram (ca. 4,000 B.C.), Marduk, an extraterrestrial humanoid, a Nephilim, reinvented himself and began his unchallenged reign as the ‘representative’s of the One God, the Creator of All, adopting all the names of all the great Gods of his time including Yahweh. Being unable to exercise absolute control over the Canaanite god-men, he soon fell out of love with them. The answer was to create a clan of attack dogs to exterminate them for him and sell him to the world as the only God there is. Thus was the new monotheism of Abraham’s lineage born, for as the Igbo say, agwochaa ara ofodu ochi, The now recycled Marduk still could not abandon his egocentric and war-mongering excesses, which was what prompted Mahatma Gandhi to say that “the problem with Jahweh is that he thinks he is God”. With all that has been said, it seems safe to conclude at this point that the original language spoken by the Kwa linguistic family (Proto Kwa) has been preserved to a large extent among today’s Igbo speakers. We believe this was the point that Afigbo wanted to stress in his Proto-Kwa or Mega-Igbo hypothesis. (Afigbo, Ibid., p. 34) It is possible to determine how far backwards in time this original Kwa-Igbo language can be traced by checking how far backwards in time the Igbo words go, because, as Merritt Ruhlen states in The Origin of Language, similarities in form and meaning between words from different languages can only be accounted for through “convergence, borrowing and common origin.” (p. 11-12) Thus Igbo words like Adaam – I have Fallen (Adam); Nna oha – ‘Father of nations’ (Noah); Chinese name for Noah is Nuwa, its Igbo equivalent is Nna uwa - ‘Father of the whole world’; Nshi/Eshi Igbo equivalent of Enosh/Enshi (son of Seth) – ‘Lord of mankind’, ‘Righteous Shepherd’; Igbo observation of leadership by primogeniture (first son) as observed from Adam and his entire lineage, all add up to link the Igbo stock directly, through Canaan and Ham to the family of Adam and Eve and to the language they spoke – the Proto-proto-language of humanity – the one-world language of the autochthonous earthlings whose remnants still go by the name Igbo!
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